Free AOL – How to convert your paid account

AOL is now giving away their service for free. If you’re already an AOL subscriber, but don’t rely on AOL to connect to the Internet, you can switch to the free plan. (If you rely on AOL for actual Internet access, then you’ll still have to cough up some dough.)

Currently AOL is telling customers, “To change your current AOL plan, simply call Member Services at 1-800-984-6207 and select the Billing Option when prompted.” I tried this, and after spending 20 minutes navigating their (gasp!) poorly designed voice-menu, I actually got through to a nice fellow who told me how to cancel. THIS IS BIG SO READ ON…

Although AOL is not really advertising it yet, subscribers can easily make the switch to the free plan by:

Logging into AOL (log in through their software–sorry, this won’t work through http://www.aol.com/; at least not yet…)

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